Danny Thanh Nguyen is the editor of AS IS, an anthology of Vietnamese American art and literature. His stories and personal essays have most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, New Delta Review, Hyphen Magazine, among other journals. He received his MFA from Indiana University and is currently a Kundiman Fiction Fellow.

Macro-Fiction

by Danny Nguyen

You are waiting for him, the man who has promised to bring ropes to tie you up, you naughty thing you. It has been arranged. You placed an ad on a website for like-minded kinky men—the tagline: Good Looking Guy In Need of Being Tied …